ZOMG 22 days LEFT

BFootNovellista — Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:40:11 -0700

Have you brainstormed your plot yet? Hmmmmmmmmmm?

Want to give us the thirty-second recap? Put it here!

Also, this is a good place to toss onto the table any ideas that you're not going to be using, for our uninspired fellow authors.
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c[_] Claire :)
Your slightly insane Co-ML

United States :: Washington :: Everett

The promised ML-Recap Post

xenachick — Thu, 2 Oct 2008 21:07:03 -0700

Welcome back to the forums!

A number of "new to us" wrimos had come out of the proverbial woodwork... We'd like to repeat a warm welcome to Dory [balistik] and Jason [jYO] (check out his website detailing the journey of writing his first book: http://www.writingventure.com)! Greetings to Amanda [AmayaNyx], who is a returning wrimo new to the Everett area. We are all pleased to hear that Sharon [queenie16] and kellyjene are hoping to be more visible at the write-ins this year, and of course and giant "welcome back" to Kat, Mark [pirho] and Leonard [LeonardStephen] as well.

I know that there are more of you out there, cuz some of you are coming to the kick-off party (details further down), so welcome to all the folks who just hadn't posted before the forums were wiped. Actually, I just checked... there are 68 of us!

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THE NEWS:

We're getting a new calendar! A link to the calendar will (hopefully) soon be added to this regional forum...we'll make sure you know when it happens.

Some (a lot) of us could benefit from more knowledge of the calendar. At this time, the only person who will be able to post to the calendar is Claire [BFootNovellista], and it will probably stay that way. This is only to avoid confusion... anyone can arrange a write-in! Just nanomail the details to Claire and she'll add it to the calendar. There will be some differences between write-ins cuz we're all very different people. Being the designated-dork [xenachick], there will be the 1000 word prize bin and plot ninjas at every write-in I attend (which will be all the ones I host, but probably more). There might be W-R-I-M-O cards at the kick-off. I'll put up a separate post describing these.

Speaking of the kick-off party, here's the link to the evite:
Link to Kick-Off Invitation
You should all be able to see the invite. Claire points out that because we don't have all of your emails, we can't invite you on the invite itself UNTIIIIIIL you reply to this email and tell us to add you! So! Please do :) She'll take care of it immediately, and you'll get a nifty Evite request to your inbox.

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THE GOSSIP:

When last we saw our intrepid authors…..

jingly noises & wavy vision aka flashback

Kat was greatly in need of a plot, when Claire inspirationally suggested the following approach:

1. Buy the paper.
2. Read the paper.
3. Choose three unrelated (but odd or intriguing) articles and cut them out.
4. Read the articles thoroughly.
5. Begin plotting a story about how a character is involved in all three events, and why. The more wacky or weird, the more interesting, the more likely it is to hold your attention :)

Heidi [xenachick] advocated for the "why are my characters doing *that*?" approach to plot development.

One way or another, Kat came up with something "amazing", "grand" and "epic"…. Which she still hasn't shared with us (hint, hint).

Kat eased the new wrimos into the reality that we're all "crazy" and/or off our meds. She also pointed out that we have a lot of fun at write-ins.

Claire had moved, but confessed that we Everettonian-ite-isms-ers are all sooooo cool and wonderful and awesome that she refuses to NaNoWriMo with her neighbor Seattlites….. thus remaining one of our overly energetic Co-MLs. She also claimed to be only "a LEETLE crazy".

Heidi, true to form, used *way* too many words (good NaNoWriMo form) to basically say that she agreed with *everyone*, was in need of a meds refill, and had a great plot idea (which has since evaporated).

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Carry on, then. More to come!
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-Everything turns out right in the end, so if it's not right.... it's not the end.

United States :: Washington :: Everett

United States :: Washington :: Everett

ZOMG 22 days LEFT

The promised ML-Recap Post